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Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz

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Ten Minute Halacha
Eating Two Kezeisim of Matzah

What would be the svarah for that?

Ten Minute Halacha
Eating Two Kezeisim of Matzah

So Misha Brewer writes in Tzivkat N'Chas, that if you eat first, if you were to eat the kazayis of Hamotzi first,

Ten Minute Halacha
Eating Two Kezeisim of Matzah

then it would be as if you're being mafsik between the bracha of al-akhilas matzah and the achilas ha-prusa, which is what the al-akhilas matzah is going on.

Ten Minute Halacha
Eating Two Kezeisim of Matzah

If you were to eat the prusa first and then the shlema, it would also be hafsik, according to those posting that the bracha of al-akhilas matzah is going on the shlema.

Ten Minute Halacha
Eating Two Kezeisim of Matzah

So therefore you want to eat them together.

Ten Minute Halacha
Eating Two Kezeisim of Matzah

So the difficulty, l'chora, is though that the Gemara says in Pesach Hamdav, Kuvtes Vava Meralef,

Ten Minute Halacha
Eating Two Kezeisim of Matzah

by a kazayis rishon of matzah and moror, not to eat them together, matzah and moror together, because the moror derabonon is going to be mevatel the matzah da'areisa.

Ten Minute Halacha
Eating Two Kezeisim of Matzah

So he said, why don't we say the same thing over here, Lechorah, that if you're having both kazayis, and only the lechem mishnah is derabonon, and the prusa is da'areisa, so shouldn't we be concerned that the time matzah,

Ten Minute Halacha
Eating Two Kezeisim of Matzah

The Rabbanon is going to be Mevatel, the Matzah, the Reisah.

Ten Minute Halacha
Eating Two Kezeisim of Matzah

So you have to suggest, in the Sefer Sukkot, he suggests on page 6, that you wouldn't say Matzah, the Rabbanon is going to be Mevatel, the Matzah, the Reisah, because you can be Yotze, the Mitzvah of Achilles Matzah with either one, strictly speaking.

Ten Minute Halacha
Eating Two Kezeisim of Matzah

With the Prusa or with the Shlema.

Ten Minute Halacha
Eating Two Kezeisim of Matzah

Strictly speaking, you're Yotze, the Mitzvah of Achilles Matzah.

Ten Minute Halacha
Eating Two Kezeisim of Matzah

You would only say that something is Mevatel, something else.

Ten Minute Halacha
Eating Two Kezeisim of Matzah

when you couldn't be Yotzei the mitzvah with both of them.

Ten Minute Halacha
Eating Two Kezeisim of Matzah

But if you could be Yotzei the mitzvah with either one, then you wouldn't say such a thing.

Ten Minute Halacha
Eating Two Kezeisim of Matzah

Another suggestion as to why they should be eaten together, in Sharatzion Ozvav he writes, that if you were to eat the Hamotzi first, meaning the Shleima first, you'd already be Yotzei the Chiyuv of Matzah.

Ten Minute Halacha
Eating Two Kezeisim of Matzah

Meaning it's not that it would be a hefsik between your bracha and being Yotzei the Chiyuv.

Ten Minute Halacha
Eating Two Kezeisim of Matzah

No, you'd be Yotzei the Chiyuv with the Shleima,

Ten Minute Halacha
Eating Two Kezeisim of Matzah

And that's a less than ideal way to be Yotzei D'Chiyu.

Ten Minute Halacha
Eating Two Kezeisim of Matzah

Because you're supposed to eat Lechem Oni.